[Bradford] Multicore processing

[Thomas Mangin]

Hi David,

This article is related and may share some light on the multi-core challenges:
http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2010/09/28/mysql-swap-insanity-and-the-numa-architecture/

If you like to learn more about the Linux kernel, lwn is really the best place.

http://lwn.net/Kernel/
http://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/

Googling for "Linux kernel SMP big lock" will return you plenty of information about the challenge encountered.

Thomas

On 1 Oct 2010, at 17:16, David Carpenter wrote:

> If anyone can explain what this means at the next meeting....
> 
> This was sent by a friend from outside the group. It's about Linux being
> able to scale to many core processing. Clever bods.
> http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/multicore-0930.html